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Monthly Archives: August 2005

How-to: Get IT certified for less in an exotic location

Spotted this on a list I subscribe to and thought to pass it on.
Want to get some new IT qualifications? Why not attend an IT Certification Bootcamp in Goa, India?
Koenig is now the # 1 choice for Boot Camp training in the world. We offer the world’s longest duration Boot Camps (our MCSE Boot [...]

New Belgrade - A new photo project by Juergen Horn

New Belgrade is one of the most fascinating urban landcapes I have even seen. Just last week I cycled out there to take pictures of some of the incredible housing “bloks” that one can find there (sample below).
Check out Juergen Horn’s beautiful images of this incredible place:
 
The project page is here. Juergen’s weblog [...]

Remembering Forbidden Planet

Great Wikipedia article on Forbidden Planet.
Reminded me of the lovely Anne Francis (below)

And that famous line:
“They forgot one thing, John. Monsters! Monsters from the Id!”

Stunning sunset over London last night

Sunset during a rain storm
Also see photos :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellectric/36892552/in/pool-sun/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellectric/36893393/in/pool-sun/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellectric/36892574/in/pool-sun/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellectric/36892565/in/pool-sun/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martymc/36879323/in/photostream/

Shockingly kitcsh Diana and Dodi statue set for Harrods

Only Al Fayed could dream up something this cheesy. Behold!
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Full story at the New York Newsday.

A line for you Watson?

J. Thomas Dalby explores Sherlock Holmes’s Cocaine Habit.

The stunning art of HongNian Zhang

 

See the exhibition and more pictures at the Fletcher Gallery

70`s

70`s
That dog yawn, that look. Wonderful.

Menezes madness continues

Islamists massacred 50 Londoners last month but you would not know it from reading the UK papers.
They are too busy maintaining the hysteria surrounding the shooting of Mr Menezes, the Brazilian mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot by the police.
Finally the families of the bomb victims are speaking out about the [...]

Sex ban lifted in Swaziland

From BBC NEWS
Swazi girls burn sex-ban tassels
A pile of thousands of woollen tassels symbolising chastity has been set on fire in Swaziland to mark the end of a sex ban imposed by King Mswati III.
The secret ceremony took place at the crack of dawn. Men were banned.
After the tassels were burnt, some 40,000 [...]